diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_curves_utils.hh b/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_curves_utils.hh
index 1e06cb2d4c7..77998b24a32 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_curves_utils.hh
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_curves_utils.hh
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ void fill_points(const CurvesGeometry &curves,
 }
 
 /**
- * Copy only the information on the point domain, but not the offsets or any point attributes,
+ * Copy only the attributes on the curve domain, but not the offsets or any point attributes,
  * meant for operations that change the number of points but not the number of curves.
  * \warning The returned curves have invalid offsets!
  */
diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/curves_geometry.cc b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/curves_geometry.cc
index 65117ab00bb..0dc6a24fd9e 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/curves_geometry.cc
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/curves_geometry.cc
@@ -242,7 +242,14 @@ MutableSpan<int8_t> CurvesGeometry::curve_types_for_write()
 
 void CurvesGeometry::fill_curve_types(const CurveType type)
 {
-  this->curve_types_for_write().fill(type);
+  if (type == CURVE_TYPE_CATMULL_ROM) {
+    /* Avoid creating the attribute for Catmull Rom which is the default when the attribute doesn't
+     * exist anyway. */
+    this->attributes_for_write().remove("curve_type");
+  }
+  else {
+    this->curve_types_for_write().fill(type);
+  }
   this->runtime->type_counts.fill(0);
   this->runtime->type_counts[type] = this->curves_num();
   this->tag_topology_changed();